Israeli court accuses Palestinian Imam for inciting violence

An imam at the Shihab al-Din mosque in Nazareth in North Palestine 48 was convicted Sunday by the Israeli Nazareth Magistrate's Court of inciting to violence and terror, and supporting a terror group. Israeli Deputy Court President Judge Lili Jung-Goffer determined that the substance of what Nazzem Abu Salim, aged 47, said and wrote, the type of violence he encouraged and praised, the size of his audience and their identity, the intensiveness of the publicity and the mood of the public he was preaching to left no doubt that there existed a real possibility that his words could spur others to violence or terror, according to the Israeli daily (Haaretz). According to the court's indictment, the imam distributed posters, booklets and manifestos and created a website, Muslim 48, to spread global jihad's ideology.